Monday, January 19, 2009

First, having some camera fun this morning. I just cant seem to get in the middle of the picture. Don't get excited, I am not doing MeMes still, I'm just throwing up a pic of my ugly mug to help others feel better about themselves.

Note the crow's feet, the 80's ear piercing that would never quite heal over, the unshaven rebellion signifying a day off, and the "I'm supposed to be cleaning the house" smirk that will soon be slapped off.

Here's today's topic of conversation:

How many of you are making money from your blog, and know a little something about doing it?

Do any of you make $10 per month?

$100 per month?

More?

Do you use Blogher? Adsense, other?

I joined Blogher (pay per impression) almost 2 months ago, and have made a whopping $12. And my traffic is pretty damn good. One of my fav bloggers jumps on Adsense this weekend, encourages her readers to click for her, and is up to $78 in 3 days.

So if you will, lets spend some time spitballing all of this, and figure out how all of us can make some money from our soul-sharing, if that is what interests you.

Tell me if you have had any success at this, and what has worked.

Also, just want to thank Young Momma, Jenners, and Tena for nice linky mentions of me recently, hop over and see what they are up to as well.

And finally, you know what tomorrow is...Tuesday's Tribute. We will be throwing up Mr. Linky tonight, we are excited to see who (or what!) you are honoring this week. Remember, you don't HAVE to Tribute President-Elect Obama. I mean, one or two might be nice, but if I find 40 tributes to the man, I'm gonna call for a recount in Pennsylvania.

Happy MLK Day.

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35 comments:

i do a few paid posts now and then but i don't think i have found my niche yet, cause i can't seem to make much money!! i have a few sites i "work" for but none of them are making me rich, yet!! ;) thinking about adsense. but don't know if i cold get people to click enough to make it worth my time??

Thanks for posting this. I have been debating whether to even pursue Blogher (they aren't accepting any new blogs the last time I checked - you got the last slot?) or not.

I'm sorry it's not panning out as well as you had hoped. Adsense sounds interesting, but I kind of like having editorial freedom. Not like I'm crazy with my topics, but you never know, I could bust out a tribute to being a swinger one day (OK, just typing that made me ill).

I like of ads on a site (especially blogher and adsense) as a sort of tip jar...if I enjoy what I read I click. This doesn't seem to be the way other people think though...although I read an article from ProBlogger (I think) that encouraged tipping bloggers.

I have Adsense and some Amazon ads on my site. I haven't made much. I am still tweaking and trying to figure out how to make a little bit of money if I can...who doesn't like money.

Thanks for the shot out Jay!! :) I'm so confused about the whole AdSense thing. After Mama Kat poster her whole thing - I tried it. You can even see the ads on my blog. I set it up, had the acct. Now it says I have no account, that it hasn't been set up yet. It also has this "E-mail Verification Has Been sent" at the top of my Dashboard. I'm so lost! lol Let me know what you figure out though, I'm very curious!

I think I've made a whopping 18 cents on adsense. Never got any clicks - just money from page impressions. I'm hoping that the recent post by a certain "Mama" who has tons of followers will encourage people to click on the ads now. Shoot, if I could make $10 a month that would be $10 of fun money I never had before. Blogher seems to complicated and intimidating for me. Will you be sharing this idea about getting away with encouraging readers to click??? See ya tomorrow for the Tribute.

Ok, well, here's my two cents. I don't think that having a blog is really going to make money for most people and I find blogs with ads a little offensive. 90% of the blogs I read don't have ads. If someone made a post asking me to click so they could make a buck I would probably not return! Sorry! :)

I don't do the add thing. I know its everyones dream to make money doing something fun and that you love but I feel that having adds on your blog is kinda like selling out. Plus they are kinda annoying. But to each his own.There that is my 2 cents.

I put adsense ads on, and have been blogging since mid-Octoberish and have made almost $12 so far. It's getting the ad clicks that is the key. Page impressions only get you a few cents a day at most...Any advice would be grreat!

I'm open to making money, but no good at it (on the internet anyway)! WAIT ..anyone need a kitchen designer?! Call me :) www.designsbybsb.com GOOD LUCK - wish I had time to figure out all the ad stuff!

I'm with Evolving Mommy Catherine, I use ads like a "tip jar" in that if I like a blogger's post I click an ad for them. What does it hurt? If you learn, or like something your "should" say thank you... IMO. The whole energy=money thing.

On the other hand I don't like going to blogs with too many ads...I get distracted.... I'm like a bird that way.

I was having trouble with Adsense when I first started blogging, but it's apparently working now...but not making any money. I've had almost 10,000 'page impressions' since I got the code to work correctly a couple of months or more ago...there's a whole whopping $6.33 sitting in my Adsense account...whoopee! ;)

I signed up for some of those 'pay per post' things, but at the time my blog wasn't 'old enough', nor were the number of visitors high enough...so I got rejected... :) Now that my blog is 'old enough' and my visitor count is high enough, I've toyed with the idea of resubmitting my blog to be eligible for getting paid for posts...but I want to make sure I don't compromise my blog with annoying posts just to make money...

I don't hang around the blogs that every single post is an advertisement for something rather than a blog with 'real' content written from the heart - or written from the funny bone. I get inundated enough with annoying infomercials, why would I want to read a page of them during my leisure blog-hopping time? ;)

There are many bloggers that do those 'paid posts' but don't focus only on the paid ones, they sandwich them in between their 'real' posts. Those I don't mind - there's still 'real' content, so who cares about paid content every now and then... ;)

Hi! Just back from vacation and getting caught up on your blog. I'm going to comment on a bunch of stuff but putting it all right here for some reason instead of the most recent one...hope you get your comments via e-mail.

And your home decor is pretty much like ours. It looks OK but it has no warmth or funkiness. It is a gift and I don't have it either. I've tried to shamelessly rip off other people but found that it can't be faked.

And re: AdSense. I started it about a month ago and had 4 clicks and earned like $1.22. I think you could earn if people click on it but no one seems to. The best thing I've gotten out of AdSense is seeing what ads they put up there based on what I've written about. When I wrote a post about gross ice cream flavors, I got ads about ice cream, which totally cracked me up. Then I posted photos about bugs, and got ads for exterminators. Now I'm getting cruise ads. I find this highly amusing and that is mainly what it has been good for -- amusing me to find what Google feels matches my content. I'm certainly not going to retire based on any of this.

I suspect that most bloggers are immune to these ads because they have them on their own blogs anyway. Who knows? I think we are all so conditioned to just ignore ads...what we need is a bunch of naive Internet users who are amazed that you can shop online. I don't think these kind of people read blogs though.

I have adsense and have made $134 since September. I encourage the clicks but no one reallllly pays attention. Definately NOT a get rich quick thing. Or a 'job' thing. lol. But, I'll go look for your ads now and give alittle click-click for ya!

To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give of one's self; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - this is to have succeeded.- Emerson